"criminology" meaning in English

See criminology in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: criminologies [plural]
Etymology: From criminal + -logy. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{suffix|en|criminal|logy}} criminal + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} criminology (countable and uncountable, plural criminologies)
  1. The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour. Wikipedia link: criminology Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Criminology Derived forms: biocriminology, criminological, neurocriminology Related terms: criminological, criminologist Translations (the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour): kriminologjia (Albanian), علم الجريمَة (ʕilm al-jarimiyya) [masculine] (Arabic), քրեաբանություն (kʻreabanutʻyun) (Armenian), kriminologiya (Azerbaijani), kriminologia (Basque), крыміналогія (kryminalóhija) [feminine] (Belarusian), криминология (kriminologija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), criminologia [feminine] (Catalan), 犯罪學 (Chinese Mandarin), 犯罪学 (fànzuìxué) (Chinese Mandarin), kriminologie [feminine] (Czech), kriminologi [common-gender] (Danish), criminologie [feminine] (Dutch), kriminologio (Esperanto), kriminoloogia (Estonian), rikosoppi (Finnish), kriminologia (Finnish), criminologie [feminine] (French), criminoloxía [feminine] (Galician), კრიმინოლოგია (ḳriminologia) (Georgian), Kriminologie [feminine] (German), εγκληματολογία (egklimatología) [feminine] (Greek), קרימינולוגיה (qriminologia) [feminine] (Hebrew), अपराध शास्त्र (aprādh śāstra) (Hindi), kriminológia (Hungarian), afbrotafræði [feminine] (Icelandic), kriminologi (Indonesian), criminologia [feminine] (Italian), 犯罪学 (hanzaigaku) (alt: はんざいがく) (Japanese), криминология (kriminologiä) (Kazakh), ឧក្រិដ្ឋវិទ្យា (okrətʰa’ vityie) (Khmer), 범죄학 (beomjoehak) (alt: 犯罪學) (Korean), kriminoloģija [feminine] (Latvian), kriminologija [feminine] (Lithuanian), криминологија (kriminologija) [feminine] (Macedonian), kaji jenayah (Malay), kriminologi (Malay), kriminologi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kriminologi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), جرمشناسی (jarem-šenâsi) (Persian), kryminologia [feminine] (Polish), criminologia [feminine] (Portuguese), criminologie [feminine] (Romanian), криминоло́гия (kriminológija) [feminine] (Russian), криминологија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kriminologija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), kriminológia [feminine] (Slovak), kriminologija [feminine] (Slovene), criminología [feminine] (Spanish), kriminologi (Swedish), อาชญาวิทยา (àat-yaa-wít-tá-yaa) (Thai), kriminoloji (Turkish), кримінологія (kryminolohija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tội phạm học (alt: 罪犯學) (Vietnamese), troseddeg [feminine] (Welsh)
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          "code": "pt",
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          ],
          "word": "криминоло́гия"
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          "word": "kriminologija"
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          "code": "es",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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        },
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
          "word": "kriminologi"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "àat-yaa-wít-tá-yaa",
          "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
          "word": "อาชญาวิทยา"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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          "alt": "罪犯學",
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
          "word": "tội phạm học"
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          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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}
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        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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        "Terms with Galician translations",
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        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
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        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Khmer translations",
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          "text": "\"So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology,\" Weisburd said. \"Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places.\"",
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      "word": "kriminologiya"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kriminologija",
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      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "criminologia"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "犯罪學"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "kriminologie"
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    {
      "code": "da",
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      "word": "kriminologi"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "criminologie"
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    {
      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminologio"
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    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminoloogia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "rikosoppi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criminologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "criminoloxía"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳriminologia",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "კრიმინოლოგია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kriminologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "egklimatología",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "εγκληματολογία"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "qriminologia",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "קרימינולוגיה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "aprādh śāstra",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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      "word": "afbrotafræði"
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    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
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      ],
      "word": "criminologia"
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    {
      "alt": "はんざいがく",
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      "roman": "hanzaigaku",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "犯罪学"
    },
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "kriminologiä",
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    },
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "okrətʰa’ vityie",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "ឧក្រិដ្ឋវិទ្យា"
    },
    {
      "alt": "犯罪學",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "beomjoehak",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "범죄학"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminoloģija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminologija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kriminologija",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "криминологија"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kaji jenayah"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "jarem-šenâsi",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "جرمشناسی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kryminologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criminologia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criminologie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kriminológija",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "криминоло́гия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "криминологија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminologija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminológia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kriminologija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criminología"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminologi"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "àat-yaa-wít-tá-yaa",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "อาชญาวิทยา"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "kriminoloji"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kryminolohija",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кримінологія"
    },
    {
      "alt": "罪犯學",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "word": "tội phạm học"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "troseddeg"
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}

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